Ciudad Perdida, Colombia 2008

Gathering and waiting for transportation	Chiva jeep	Carolina and Steve	lieutenant
CP011.jpg	the chiva driver	Bougainvillea in the tiny village at the beginning of the hike	Starting the hike
Cattle drive	CP023.jpg	Our guide Omar and his leaf-tattooed belly	CP027.jpg
Omar goofing with some stall owners	First break	David	CP033.jpg
CP036.jpg	Carolina	Farm workers along the trail	Small landholdings dotted the countryside
trail steps	CP046.jpg	CP050.jpg	Omar in an eroded part of the trail
CP052.jpg	CP053.jpg	river crossing at the first camp	closely hung hammacks
Omar cooking supper	CP062.jpg	Steve and Carolina	CP067.jpg
Mules on the trail	Mule making its way home	Crossing the river	CP075.jpg
Coke lab guy	Coke lab guy talking to Roman	Child walking the trail to school	toilet, shower and flushing water
beautiful mule driver	CP081.jpg	Soldier on the trail	More soldiers
Just how much can you pack on a mule?	More,	more,	and then some!
Slash and burn erosion	meeting of two cultures	fruit snack on a banana leaf	yet another river crossing
thatched hut	village	walking through their village	CP099.jpg
CP100.jpg	CP101.jpg	CP102.jpg	Omar, Hila, Roman and Brendan
David and Carolina	Margaret	Young family - she asked for one of my bandanas	CP109.jpg
primary growth jungle	mushrooms abound	CP115.jpg	CP116.jpg
camp	banana stalk	two camp visitors	kitchen set-up
Indigenous Family	CP124.jpg	Woman basket weaver holds Roman's unfinished basket	CP126.jpg
empanada breakfast	tuna filling for empanadas	twisting the twine to make bolsas	our bag weaver, demonstrating her technique for twisting twine
I traded my mosquito head net for some pictures. She promptly turned the netting into a bag.	homemade backpack	CP139.jpg	Steve climbing a fence
Trail wandering through a banana orchard	CP144.jpg	trail	trail
CP148.jpg	David	Brendan	Hila
Steve	Omar	Roman	Carolina
that damned dog	river crossing	another river crossing	waterfalls everywhere
river spider	We have arrived!	1900 steps up to the Lost City	more and more little, bitty steps
CP168.jpg	CP169.jpg	Several of the 1,900 ancient steps up to the first ruins	ruins
ruins	ruins	manos and metates	ruins
the clouds roll in	ruins	ruins	ruins
ruins	making arepas	CP195.jpg	Omar chopping firewood
CP198.jpg	dishwashing	primitive shower	toilet and shower set-up
camp at the Cuidad Perdida	camp	kitchen sink	ferns and flowers
eroded trail	CP213.jpg	grating cheese	morning hot chocolate
breadfast arepas	Brendan and Hila	camp at the Cuidad Perdida	camp
CP223.jpg	beautiful stairway	pressure cooking on a wood fire!	CP227.jpg
Brendan, Omar, Roman and Carolina	thatched hut	CP230.jpg	Carolina
Steve	CP233.jpg	David	David
Hila and Roman	An iconic view of the Lost City	CP238.jpg	wooden bench
twine bag	wooden bench	metate used until a hole is formed in the rock	mossy ruin
ruin	ruin	jungle setting	ruin
ruin	ruin	Hila and Omar	Roman and David
Steve	Subterranean hide away	pool	waterfall
Omar and a sacrificial rock	another soldier and Hila	ceremonial chair	waterfall
CP270.jpg	Omar	Roman (Switzerland), Margaret (USA), Steve (USA), Carolina (Italy), Omar (Colombia [our guide]), Brendan (Canada), Hila (Israel)	Margaret
Roman, Margaret, Steve, Carolina, David, Brendan, Hila	tree-climbing chicken	CP278.jpg	cotton gin
Hila	Roman	Steve	Carolina
Omar	David	Margaret	Brendan
soldier checking our gear	Yikes! the legs.

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Guest		12-Mar-2011 20:17
Great Pictures; My husband just returned from vacationing in Santa Marta and are planning on returning next year to do the Ciudad Perdida. We are Canadians and I was wondering if those who came from the US or Canada took any malaria drugs and if so what kind? Also is there any information that you would be able to add that may not be in the website? Thanks codcamcar@hotmail.com

Guest		22-Apr-2010 22:44
Great pictures and remarks. We as native Colombian's have never been to Ciudad Perdida and really enjoy watching your pictures. Hope you had fun and will visit Colombia again soon

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